Re: Is Hibernate right about the LGPL?

[Simon Waters]

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Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
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| If a product combines the hibernate.jar file with its own code, e.g.,
|  in  an EAR file (for deployment on a J2EE server), I see this as
| linking (in the sense of  section 5 of the LGPL), creating a work
| that is a derivative of the Library.

Linking is specifically excluded from the scope of the LGPL by section
5. Linking does not create a derivative work in the LGPL, but a "work
that uses the library".

| My worthy opponent says that this right to make modifications only
| covers  the LGPL-part, i.e., the Library. I can't see that in the
| wording

Are you reading the LGPL or the GPL?

| So, am I reading this correctly (and is the Hibernate people wrong on
|  this  page)?

The LGPL seems an appropriate licence to achieve their aims, although
I'm not sure how the FSF would view their intent of "keeping it open
source", surely they mean free ;)

IANAL.
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